A Khulna court on Monday sentenced a woman to ten years imprisonment in a narcotics case.
The convict is Fatema Begum, wife of Jahangir Sheikh of Pirojpur’s Masimpur area.
Khulna Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mahmuda Khatun handed down the judgment.
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The court also fined Fatema Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer six months more rigorous imprisonment, said Abul Kalam Azad, bench assistant of the court.
According to the prosecution, a team of police arrested Fatema along with 52 bottles of Phensedyl from Rupsa bus stand area of Khulna on July 23, 2019.
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Parveen Akhter, inspector of the departmental intelligence branch of the Narcotics Control Directorate, filed a case under the Narcotics Control Act at Khulna police station.
On September 8, 2019, Mosaddek Hossain, sub-inspector (SI) of the Intelligence Branch of the Narcotics Control Directorate, submitted a charge sheet against the accused.
Source: United News of Bangladesh